Senior Test Engineer

Summary

Join TGTG as a Senior Test Automation Engineer and contribute to a government IT project. You will be responsible for writing, executing, and reporting on testing activities within a cross-functional agile development environment. This role requires experience with automated testing in a Microsoft Dynamics framework, along with strong communication and collaboration skills. You will work closely with developers, end-users, and other teams to create test plans and scripts, manage the defect database, and develop testing strategies. The ideal candidate will have a background in programming and testing across platforms, experience with Azure Cloud Environment, and excellent communication skills. This is a remote, full-time position.

Requirements

• Required Skills & Experience Qualifications A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electronics Engineering, or other engineering or technical discipline, or 8 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education
• Applied experience (5 + years)
• Coordination and management of test events in accordance with approved test plans, procedures, and scripts
• Knowledge and skills to ensure that test environments are set up accurately
• Ability to create test plans and reports
• Must be able to test hardware, software, and networks
• Work with a Development Team to ensure user stories have testable acceptance criteria
• Knowledge of modern web applications and underlying technology stack
• Ability to manage multiple, parallel initiatives and meet established deadlines
• Excitement for building a product that will be used by the US Department of Veterans Affairs
• Ability to work in a team environment while also independently solving complex problems with minimal direction
• Excellent verbal, written communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to develop good working relationships with customers, colleagues, and other stakeholders
• Setup automated testing to ensure full regression testing is executable
• Formal Education: Bachelor of Science degree required
• Years of Professional Experience: 5+ years of experience

Responsibilities

• Must have experience working with developers, end users and organizations to create test plans and test scripts
• Coordinate with test sites and other team participants to plan test events
• Experience in creating reports
• Tracks problems and reports on errors that are identified
• Must have experience with configuring necessary hardware and operating environments as needed to complete assigned testing
• Must have comprehensive technical expertise on IT products, operating systems, software, hardware, systems and networks and specialized environments
• Must manage the defect database under the guidance of senior QA engineers
• Ability to develop testing strategies and scenarios for review with both project and client teams to ensure alignment with project requirements and delivery
• Create testing documentation to include Master Test Plan, User Acceptance Test Plan, Test Cases and Scripts, Test Readiness Review Report, Integration Test Results Report, and other Test Results reports
• Participate in the DevOps, Agile-Scrum process by assisting with user story development, estimating, and completion of assigned stories
• As an agile team member start testing at the beginning of each sprint and ensure the scope of a sprint is complete
• Automated testing within a major testing framework, MS Dynamics 365 business applications, and integration of testing into a continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline
• Demonstrated experience in automated functional, regression, performance, installation, compatibility, end-to-end/system, and incremental integration testing
• Experience with web application testing using Selenium or other comparable automated testing tool
• Strong understanding of automated creation of testing deliverables compatible with a documentation-heavy, agile-based methodology
• Ability to maintain close alignment with functional SMEs, development team, project management, etc. throughout the system development lifecycle
• Demonstrated communication, presentation, organizational, and IT skills
• Familiar with JIRA, ADO, or other project tracking software
• Provide daily, weekly, monthly, and/or quarterly metrics as required to leadership and practice partners
• Recommend and execute improvements
• Perform related duties as assigned by supervisor

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in programming and testing across platforms is a plus
• Experience with Azure Cloud Environment and entire suite of MS Office applications
• Ability to develop good working relationships with customers, colleagues, and other stakeholders
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation communication skills, including the ability to communicate with brevity and clarity to government clients and develop work products that meet professional quality standards with minimal supervision
• Ability to schedule, organize, and facilitate executive-level virtual meetings and summarize outcomes
• Ability to self-organize, balance workload, complete tasks on time (without reminders), proactively seek out assignments, and offer improvements to client delivery
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Understanding of the Dynamics 365 (D365) CRM solution from the business / functional perspective
• Prior experience with VA / US Government Agencies
• Ability to adapt well to a changing and dynamic client environment and function independently
• Ability to work nights and weekends (on occasion if needed)